Participants of parliamentary reporting training on Saturday revealed that Nepal’s parliamentary reporting is in a pitiable condition. At a concluding program of a short-term parliamentary reporting training, they unfolded their grievances that neither the legislative nor the government has yet realized the significance of parliamentary reporting in the democratic age.
At a closing program facilitated in Kathmandu by Nepal Press Institute, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and Media and Democracy, Chairman of the Constituent Assembly (CA) and the current Legislative Parliament expressed his belief that the training would contribute to the mission of drafting a new constitution, so vital for the ongoing peace process to reach a logical end. He urged parliamentary reporters to expose the Legislative-Parliament’s drawbacks for correction purposes.
Speaking at the program, Vice-Chairperson of the Legislative-Parliament Purna Kumari Subedi urged journalists to play a conscious role in making Nepal’s peace process a success, especially in bringing about people-desired changes.
Chairman of Freedom Forum, a media NGO, Taranath Dahal expressed his dissatisfaction at the state’s negligence of parliamentary reporters. He expressed his bitter experience that journalists are controlled within the House.
Different journalists, who participated in the training, said that they learnt new things in the training.
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